On Either Side

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes prison. For one night, filmmaker Yann Le Masson films them. They tell him their vision for the future of Algeria and the place women must occupy in the new society to be built. Fifty years later, with the soundtrack missing, Raphaël Pillosio sets out to find these women. Two deaf people set about lip-reading the women filmed by Yann Le Masson, revealing snatches of sentences, words cut short by the camera's shifts. An investigative film in which the few activists still alive discover their old testimonies and tell us their silent story. The reconstruction of the lost soundtrack will remain in suspense; no happy ending will come to absorb the absence, to cancel the ferocious operation of time. An essay film about cinema that depicts their disappearance, and forever keeps them alive.

In a functional rehabilitation centre, made-to-measure mechanical limbs help male and female amputees to redefine themselves by gaining control of their new body.

Fred Deux and Cécile Reims are major twentieth century artists. Over a period of several months, Matthieu Chatellier filmed them in the privacy of their peinting and engraving work. The film focuses on a precise time in their lives: the time of ageing, dispossession and questions about the hereafter.

Jann Gallois is a dancer and choreographer. Her body is her work tool. Always looking for the right movement, she twists it, bends it, stretches it, breaks it. But memories reappear and the body’s memory, excessively in demand, awakens old wounds. How does this dancer, who says she is "passed through by others and by herself", live with her body?

Maurice is a camera operator living in a deserted village in the mountains of central France. Drawn to the call of the woods, he begins wandering alone through lands now once again haunted by wolves. It is not long before the ghosts of the past reappear.

A love passion between a man and a woman through their phone conversations.